On Sunday 2009-01-18 21:45, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:14:16AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Sunday 2009-01-18 06:37, Herbert Xu wrote: >> >On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:48:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> >> >> Looking at libcrc32c.c shows that it essentially depends on the >> >> crc32c crypto module, which was not packed into my initramfs image >> >> by mkinitrd because.. there is no dependency. >> > >> >Actually the whole point of doing the crc32c/libcrc32c reversal >> >was to allow multiple providers of crc32c. As it stands we have >> >a generic C version plus an Intel version.[...] >> >I think a better way of tackling this is to note this information >> >explicitly in the module. For example, just like module aliases >> >we can add explicit module dependencies. >> >> Can we?[...] >> But in kbuild, this functionality does not seem exported >> to me as a macro (maybe MODULE_DEPENDS?). > >kbuild finds out during modpost what modules depends on what other modules >and this is used for the dependencies. >There is no way to control this manually today. So what will the crypto subsystem try to do then, implementation-wise, given that kbuild cannot be manually tuned this way? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
